Christine Taylor compares her first date with Ben Stiller with Carries and Big's

Christine Taylor sees some surprising similarities between her first date with husband Ben Stiller and Carrie Bradshaw's first date with Mr. Big in Sex and the city.

In the latest episode of the Are you a Charlotte? Podcast, the Favorite The 53 -year -old star came to host Kristin Davis, 60 to discuss the sixth episode of the first season of the beloved HBO comedy. Sarah Jessica Parkers Carrie finally found “Secret Sex” with the difficult -to -grapple Mr. Big (Chris Noth) in her first date. Things have a passionate start, but Carrie quickly believes that Big is trying to keep her prospective relationship under closure when he brings her to the second date in the same, grubby, in the wall of Chinese restaurant.

Taylor said the entire scenario reminded her of her own first date with Stiller, which she had hit in 1999 when she worked on a TV pilot that was never broadcast.

“Ben was Ben Stiller“, Taylor recalled,”Mary has something had come out. It was huge. ”

She further explained that both she and silent “got out of relationships” and in the “rebound” mode when he asked her for the first time for dinner.

“But he was still Ben Stiller, so he excited where he went,” she said.

She remembered how Stern had picked up in her house in her Laurel Canyon and casually suggested to visit a restaurant in part of Los Angeles, which had not “happened” at that time.

“He just said: 'Hey, I love the valley. I don't go to many restaurants in the valley. Are there any good restaurants that you like here? “She said. “Between the lines, what I read was literally like: 'This is a first date. The last thing we want is that Paparazzi catches a picture and there is a kind of story. '' ”

“It really made me laugh because he didn't think I knew what he was [doing]”She added.

Taylor explained that she too wanted to be careful about her potentially gripped relationship. “It was this strange thing that I made a date with Ben Stiller. How is the reality? It's strange, ”she said. “I wanted this to feel like a secret in a way. I didn't want people to be so fascinated or have opinions. ”

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The couple performed publicly at the MTV Movie Awards in June 1999 and married the following May.

But the Taylor style Sex and the city The connection does not end with Carrie and Big. Stürler's mother, Anne Meara, played in seasons 5 and 6 as mother -in -law from Cynthia Nixons Miranda Hobbes. And more than two decades later, another family member is about to join this SATC Extended television universe. To Are you a Charlotte?Taylor and Davis revealed that Taylor and Stiller's daughter Ella Stiller (22) will be a guest star in an upcoming episode of Max's And just like that…

“It was a dream job for her,” said Taylor. “Only the greatest days with them and cynthia and all work.”

“Oh, let me tell you together in one scene in which every person literally appears,” teased Davis. “And Ella was just a soldier.”